The State Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA) is a museum, exhibition and research center in Moscow , engaged in the development of contemporary Russian art and the popularization of knowledge . The center was founded in 1992 by a decree of the Ministry of Culture . In 2004 , the opening of a new building on Zoological Street [1] took place .
| National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA) | |
|---|---|
 Museum building, 2013 | |
| Established | 1992 |
| Reorganized | 2016 |
| Location | |
| Address | Moscow , Zoological street , 13 |
| Director | Vera Lagutenkova |
| Website | Official site |
In 2016, the NCCA was merged with the State Museum and Exhibition Center ROSIZO . As of 2018, the center includes branches in Vladikavkaz , Yekaterinburg , Kaliningrad , Nizhny Novgorod , St. Petersburg , Tomsk , Samara , Saratov [1] .
Content
- 1 History
- 2 Activities
- 2.1 Collection
- 2.2 Exhibitions and events
- 3 notes
- 4 Literature
History
The center was established in 1992 by decree of the Ministry of Culture "On the establishment of the State Center for Contemporary Art" [2] . The NCCA was the first state organization whose activities were completely devoted to contemporary art. In the 1990s, it was one of the main venues for the sociocultural life of Moscow, where exhibitions were held and innovative domestic and international projects were carried out. The center is mainly engaged in the formation of cultural policy and creates the infrastructure for projects to develop domestic contemporary art [1] [3] [4] .
In 2004, the new building of the NCCA was opened in the premises of the former production workshop of the plant for the manufacture of electric lighting equipment on Zoologicheskaya Street. The reconstruction project was developed by the architectural workshop of Mikhail Khazanov with the participation of Mikhail Mindlin , M. Rebrova, Nikita Shangin , engineer N. Nikolaeva, and designer Nodar Kancheli . The premises with a total area of more than 2000 m² were redone due to the metal skeleton removed from the external perimeter of the walls, which allowed to increase the volume of the building. On the skeleton were mezzanine floors and roof ceilings. In addition to the main exhibition space, the building housed scientific and technical departments, a library, an art library, a publishing complex, production workshops and a depository . In addition, the museum owns a room of 280 m² in the attic of the former house of the artist Fyodor Polenov , also located on Zoological Street [5] [6] [7] .
In 2013, the NCCA announced an architectural competition for the design of a new museum building, which was to be located in the center of the Khodynsky field . According to the results of the competition, the first place was taken by the Irish bureau Heneghan Peng Architects [8] . In 2014, in the presence of the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky and Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov , the ceremony of laying the first stone of the new building took place [9] , but in September 2018 it became known that the construction project had to be abandoned due to a lack of funds in the city budget [10 ] .
| In our country, there are several dozen major centers of classical art and, in fact, two - of contemporary art: the NCCA and ROSIZO. These multidisciplinary cultural institutions have similar tasks. They implement large-scale exhibition projects, promote Russian art abroad, work closely with museums, artists, curators, theorists and critics, and carry out their own educational and publishing programs.Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky [3] |
In 2016, the NCCA became part of the ROSIZO State Museum and Exhibition Center as a structural unit [11] . After the unification of the two structures, most of the old museum staff were fired, including the art director and founder of the NCCA Leonid Bazhanov [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] . The new head of the center was appointed head of ROSIZO Sergei Perov [3] [17] . As of 2018, the ROSIZO-NCCA complex includes eight branches in St. Petersburg (became part of the museum in 1995), Kaliningrad (1997), Nizhny Novgorod (1997), Yekaterinburg (1999), Vladikavkaz (2010), Tomsk (2013), Samara (2014), Saratov (2016) [18] [1] [19] .
| I thought about leaving the NCCA from the very beginning, when it became known about the merger, but it seemed to me that I could not leave the center until I completed the projects of this year. When it was announced that the reorganization would end on November 1, I hoped that by this moment we would carry out our main planned projects <...> But there is no respect for the opinion of the Scientific Council that voted for these projects. All decisions are now made by one person - Sergey Perov, to whom employees must make excuses and prove that all the works that are proposed to be shown to the viewer are objects of cultural significance, and not a provocation. The situation in which we find ourselves as people engaged in art seems to be humiliating. You can probably be reproached me with the fact that I am leaving the center and I had to fight further, but I don’t see myself inside ROSIZO and cannot bear responsibility for what I carried before.Head of the department of art programs, curator Irina Gorlova [12] |
In 2016, it became known about a number of searches in the main building of the center, which were carried out in connection with a criminal case against the deputy head of the Ministry of Culture Grigory Pirumov and his possible connections with the former director of the NCCA, Mikhail Mindlin [20] [21] [22] . In the same year, the main building of the NCCA on Zoological Street was closed for reconstruction, with a preliminary completion date of 2022. Upon completion of the reconstruction, it is planned to accommodate administrative services and a lecture hall in the premises, and to open children's studios in buildings No. 3 and 4 [23] . In 2017, a hall for permanent exhibitions of regional branches was created in the main building [24] [25] .
In 2018, the artist Vera Lagutenkova was appointed to the post of director of ROSIZO [26] .
On July 2, 2019, at a meeting on the development of a network of branches of the NCCA held at the Ministry of Culture , it was announced that the NCCA would be transferred from ROSIZO to the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts [27] .
Activities
Collection
Since its inception in 1992, the NCCA has been developing an art collection that includes works by both foreign and domestic authors. The first works acquired were paintings by artists Vladislav Efimov, Yuri Liberman and Francisco Infante [28] . As of 2018, the NCCA includes more than 5000 storage units: graphic, art and multimedia images, installations, sculptures, photographs [3] [29] .
Exhibitions and Events
In 2002, the NCCA initiated the creation of the annual Stop! Who goes? ”, Organized jointly with the Free Workshops School of Modern Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA). In 2008, due to the increased number of participants, the festival was reorganized into the annual Moscow International Biennale of Young Art [3] .
In 2005, the NCCA founded the All-Russian competition in the field of contemporary visual art, Innovation . Participating projects can receive an award in five categories: “A Work of Visual Art”, “Curatorial Project”, “Theory, Criticism, Art Studies”, “Regional Project of Contemporary Art”, “New Generation” [3] [30] .
In 2016, a weekly exhibition dedicated to Dadaism was held at the NCCA. It featured manifestos of movement, fragments of cinematic experiments by Hans Richter and Man Ray , acoustic installations working with the sound of Hugo Ball and Kurt Schwitters [31] .
In 2017, the museum launched the TECHNE project, dedicated to the study of technological art : robotic, generative and kinetic . The first of a series of exhibitions exhibited works prepared jointly with the architectural studio "Workshop B" [32] . Since 2017, the NCCA, together with the ITMO University, have prepared a lecture course on the history of science and art for specialists in scientific communication. Lectures are given by Natalya Fuchs and Olga Remneva [33] .
- Regional exhibitions in Moscow in 2017
- “Living Living” is a project of curators Alisa Savitskaya and Artyom Filatov of the NCCA of Nizhny Novgorod (“Arsenal”) [34] .
- Russian Red Ordinary is a project of the curator Eugene Umansky Baltic Branch of the NCCA [35] .
- “The Shiryaev Biennale. Central Russian Zen ”is a project of Neli and Roman Korzhovy of the Samara branch of the NCCA [36] .
- “Taming the Void” is a temporary exposition from the funds of the Ural branch, prepared by Vladimir Seleznev [37] .
- “Own the Caucasus!” - the reporting exhibition of the XIth Art Symposium “Alanika” and the cultural city program “Own the Caucasus!” Of the North Caucasus Branch of the NCCA [38] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 About the NCCA . Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. Date of treatment December 27, 2018.
- ↑ Selivanov, 2011 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 Tatyana Markina, Daria Palankina, Svetlana Yanina. ROSIZO and NCCA will merge together. The association will be headed by Sergey Perov . The Art Newspaper (May 25, 2016). Date of treatment December 27, 2018.
- ↑ State Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA) . Get to know Moscow. Date of treatment December 27, 2018.
- ↑ State Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA) . Museums of Russia. Date of treatment December 27, 2018.
- ↑ State Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA) . ART Node. Date of treatment December 27, 2018.
- ↑ The State Center for Contemporary Art is a serious approach to contemporary art . The VanderLust. Date of treatment December 27, 2018.
- ↑ Anya Chesova. The building of the NCCA will be designed by the Irish Bureau . The Village (December 23, 2013). Date of treatment December 27, 2018.
- ↑ The construction of a new building of the NCCA on the Khodynsky field Begins . Colta (October 31, 2014). Date of treatment December 27, 2018.
- ↑ The authorities refused to build the NCCA building on the Khodynsky field . The Village (September 20, 2018). Date of treatment December 27, 2018.
- ↑ Association of ROSIZO and NCCA: none of the projects should suffer . Radio News (June 5, 2016). Date of treatment December 27, 2018.
- ↑ 1 2 Daria Palankina. Key figures Are being dismissed from the NCCA . The Art Newspaper (November 1, 2016). Date of treatment December 27, 2018.
- ↑ Sergey Perov: there is less money in ROSIZO, more creative ambitions . TASS (November 14, 2016). Date of treatment December 27, 2018.
- ↑ The collection of signatures has been announced for the preservation of the NCCA . Colta (May 27, 2016). Date of treatment December 27, 2018.
- ↑ Daria Palankin. Leonid Bazhanov: “I do not see for myself the opportunity to work in such a climate” . The Art Newspaper (October 25, 2016). Date of treatment December 27, 2018.
- ↑ ROSIZO will be combined with the NCCA . Colta (201605-26). Date of treatment December 27, 2018.
- ↑ Anastasia Petrakova. A branch of the NCCA open in Saratov . The Art Newspaper (September 1, 2016). Date of treatment December 27, 2018.
- ↑ Galkin, 2015 .
- ↑ State Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA) . Culture.rf. Date of treatment December 27, 2018.
- ↑ Kirill Bulanov. They came to the State Center for Contemporary Art with searches . RBC (May 31, 2016). Date of treatment December 27, 2018.
- ↑ Daria Palankin. Search and detention at the NCCA . The Art Newspaper (May 31, 2016). Date of treatment December 27, 2018.
- ↑ Mikhail Mindlin was interrogated after searches at the NCCA . Colta (June 1, 2016). Date of treatment December 27, 2018.
- ↑ Anastasia Petrakova. The new NCCA will bet on the regions . The Art Newspaper (March 1, 2017). Date of treatment December 27, 2018.
- ↑ What happened in the art world on March 1 . The Art Newspaper (March 1, 2017). Date of treatment December 27, 2018.
- ↑ NCCA plans for 2017 announced . Colta (March 1, 2017). Date of treatment December 27, 2018.
- ↑ Svetlana Yankina. Sergey Perov left ROSIZO - NCCA . The Art Newspaper (October 31, 2018). Date of treatment December 27, 2018.
- ↑ Julia Strukova. The National Center for Contemporary Art is under the control of the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin . The Art Newspaper (July 2, 2019).
- ↑ Collection of the National Center for Contemporary Art . Echo of Moscow (February 7, 2009). Date of treatment December 27, 2018.
- ↑ About the collection . NCCA. Date of treatment December 27, 2018.
- ↑ Exhibition of nominees for the Innovation 2014 Competition . Art Guide (May 3, 2015). Date of treatment December 27, 2018.
- ↑ Daria Palatkina. The NCCA celebrates the centennial of Dadaism . The Art Newspaper (June 10, 2016). Date of treatment December 27, 2018.
- ↑ Anastasia Petrakova. ROSIZO-NCCA launches the five-year TECHNE project . The Art Newspaper (December 14, 2017). Date of treatment December 27, 2018.
- ↑ The State Center for Contemporary Art as a part of ROSIZO and ITMO University have signed an agreement on strategic cooperation . ITMO News (October 25, 2017). Date of treatment December 27, 2018.
- ↑ Life of the living . NCCA official website. Date of appeal December 25, 2018.
- ↑ Russian Red Ordinary . NCCA official website. Date of appeal December 25, 2018.
- ↑ Shiryaev Biennale. Central Russian Zen . NCCA official website. Date of appeal December 25, 2018.
- ↑ Taming the void. 50 years of contemporary art of the Urals . NCCA official website. Date of appeal December 25, 2018.
- ↑ The exhibition “Own the Caucasus!” . State Museum and Exhibition Center ROSIZO. Date of appeal December 25, 2018.
Literature
- Galkin D.V., Kuklina A. Yu. Development of contemporary art in Russian regions: global context and local projects // Tomsk State University Bulletin. - 2015. - Issue. 397 . - S. 65-74 .
- Selivanov N.L., Selivanova T.V. Workshops of the Future. Experiments in constructing educational models based on modern art practices in Moscow // Pedagogy of art. - 2011. - Issue. 3 . - S. 1-15 .